The many sheltered embayments, riverine estuaries and drowned river valleys of temperate eastern Australia support a large area and a wide diversity of coastal wetlands. This region also supports over one-half of the country’s population and includes its major tourist and industrial centres. The story of Cinderella provides an excellent simile for the status of coastal wetlands in this region o...

This paper is concerned with option pricing in an incomplete market driven by a jumpdiffusion process. We price options according to the principle of utility indifference. Our main contribution is an efficient multi-nomial tree method for computing the utility indifference prices for both European and American options. Moreover, we conduct an extensive numerical study to examine how the indiffe...

What is the relation between metaphors and similes? Aristotle's "comparison theory" holds that metaphors are elliptical similes: "Sam is a pig" is simply a short form of "Sam is like a pig." In contrast, it has been suggested that metaphors cannot be elliptical similes because metaphors are "stronger" than similes. We know metaphors are stronger, it is argued, because of examples involving corr...

The medieval simile of the world as a book seems to anticipate modern notions of biodiversity as a key to insights and learning. This thought is translated into the practice of research in the August Krogh principle, which provides argumentative support for researchers who dare to venture beyond the range of commonly used models by choosing a new experimental organism for a particular scientifi...

Knowledge has been likened by Montaigne"to the settling of wine. The sediment collected at the bottom represents that which has separated out as accepted truth from that which is in process by clarifying, while the scum at the top represents that doubtful stuff which may never be of any use at all. This simile is peculiarly applicable to the process which is at work in those subjects termed by ...

Examples of figurative language can range from the explicit and the obvious to the implicit and downright enigmatic. Some simpler forms, like simile, often wear their meanings on their sleeve, while more challenging forms, like metaphor, can make cryptic allusions more akin to those of riddles or crossword puzzles. In this paper we argue that because the same concepts and properties are describ...

In his De Poetics, Aristotle wrote that “the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissirdars.” 1 By Aristotle’s standards, few of us would qualify as “a master of metaphor. ” In fact, merely distinguishing the term “metaph...

People often use similes of pattern “as adjective as noun” to express their feelings on web medias. The adjective in the pattern is generally the salient property and strong impression of the noun entity in the speaker’s mind. By querying the simile templates from search engines, we construct a large database of “noun-adjective” items in English and Chinese, which highlight the same and differe...